This woman shared a photo of her period blood online to ‘normalise’ bleeding… but instead lost loads of followers

Not everyone is praising YouTuber Grace Victory for her "relatable" Instagram post...

By Lydia Hawken

2nd August 2018, 1:32 pm

Updated: 2nd August 2018, 1:33 pm

WHETHER it has unexpectedly arrived in the middle of the night or you've simply been caught short without a sanitary towel, we've all had to deal with annoying period blood stains at some point in our lives.

And now British YouTuber Grace Victory has attempted to normalise periods by sharing an incredibly relatable photo on social media... but lost a whole load of followers in the process.

Famous for speaking open and honestly about everything from eating disorders to domestic abuse, the plus-sized fashion vlogger decided to tackle the stigma attached to menstruation by posting a picture of her blood-stained sheets on Instagram .

Sharing the personal picture of herself lying in bed next to the blood stain, the internet star captioned the honest photo with the simple statement: "let's normalise bleeding."

Alongside this, Grace also included an extract of a poem she wrote for the Always campaign to end period poverty: "for the redness turns to shame, and the inner peace blends to hate, and the sweetness of chocolate to cure the same does nothing."

She then asked her 147,000 followers "how does this image make you feel?"

Since Grace called out the period shaming, her original post has been liked over 12,000 times and she still has a loyal following of almost 150,000 on the platform.

Alongside her work with the Always #EndPeriodPoverty campaign, Grace also runs the Heal Grow Glow Instagram account for fellow victims of domestic abuse.

Last year, she exclusively spoke to Fabulous Online about her "Jeremy Kyle-type" childhood which involved being kidnapped and held hostage by a relative and suffering crippling body confidence issues from the age of six.

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